Charles Diesendruck

Post-doc: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011-2014

PhD: Dept. of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2011

MSc: Dept. of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2007

BSc: Dept. of Chemistry, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2003

Nano Main Field: The demand for new, better materials increasingly directs materials science towards a profound understanding of the relation between the nanoscopic and macroscopic worlds. We take advantage of internally cross-linked polymer architectures to tune the thermomechanical properties of materials composed of single-chain polymer nanoparticle (SCPNs) assemblies. We study the structure-function relationships of SCPN assemblies by controlling the SCPNs’ size, cross-link density, shape and rigidity during synthesis, tuning the thermomechanical properties of the final material.

Research Interests: polymer chemistry and physics, mechanochemistry, organometallic chemistry